And the wars go on… 14 April 2010
Posted by marisacat in 2010 Mid Terms, 2012 Re Election, Afghanistan War, AFRICOM, Border Issues, Culture of Death, DC Politics, Democrats, Inconvenient Voice of the Voter, Iran, Iraq War, Israel/AIPAC, Mexico, Pakistan, Somalia, South America, Venezuela - Chavez, WAR!.trackback
A bird perches on razor-wire at the US army’s Camp Blue Diamond in Ramadi, Iraq [Ben Curtis/AP]
I don’t see them ever ending. Simply expanding, moving, shifting.
Why would they ever end? They never have, in the past. Vietnam seems an anomaly frankly.
Must really piss us off to be shut out of Iran. Bolivia. Venezuela…and so on…
Where there is a will there is a way…
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I have the solution to his Popeyness’ problems! Send him to another parish.
haha
political hosrseflesh… much the same.
Lamar Smith (R-TX):
America doesn’t need another liberal justice
BHHM (Whackjob- NJ) :
That would be because Lamar Smith is a corporate money grubbin cash gurglin hoe for the uber rich who sells this crap to morons. But you can bet Obama and his corporate money grubbin cash gurglin Administration will be right behind him too. Along with the Democrats on the Hill , the corporate cash grubbin etc etc.
They’ll end up confirming a corporate hoe to SCOTUS as well. They’ve only been performing this Dance of the Dildoes for decades now.
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Fuckin Politico. They removed the Dildo. From “Dildoes” that is. leaving it to read Dances with *****es , Which in addition to needlessly nattering the nabob off ‘nother nascent neo-alliterative notion, it might remind people of the Kevin Costner film. And Meatier Blades would have to weigh in with a ruling, etc. You know, as global policeman for DK, Native Americans, the MPAA and all.
Funny thing is, initially they allowed the full Dildo, then removed “ildo” then knocked the D off entirely.
Alas, even the memory will be gone soon. I posted a follow up:
“That’s Dances with *Dildoes.”
Anti alliterative bastards.
so interesting what gets hit. Well… not really “interesting” but revealing.
Dance of the Dildoes… reminds me.
Not too shockingly I had never heard of it, as I haven’t really kept up for years, but tooling around Netflix I landed on a Johnny Depp… The Libertine. I was taking a look at the member reviews and the very first one mentioned that a showing he had gone to, two teengers were escorted out, before the movie started. I guess it is “R”………..
So I rented it to see… which I might have done anyway as ti sounded like a well conceived period piece (late 1600s under Charles II). It was a wonderful period piece, including a 17 c stage play put on with a “Dance of the Dildoes” in it… no kidding.
Now remember we live in a country where, as I bluntly put it, we have the xtian children of Promise Keepers and Abstinence enforcers and virginity demanders, etc., engaging in “ass fucking for Jesus”….. and when pregnant being very shocked.
Screwed up country. Scared of a sick old creep paster who said (as it was often printed)
G-d d— America.
You gotta wonder.
Henh. Oh The commentary is a trifle admittedly, hardly interesting, but its a helluva thing that the copious RW froth slides by alongside the Obamabots alike…….but very little outside the 2 party paradigm.
Politico, R leaning in THAT whole suckers game, but it was the same thing last summer when slipping some stuff in about Neutered Roots Nation in PGH last summer when Bill C spoke…the rule apparently is never speak ill of the illusion or payola.
It’s along the lines of what you’ve said before..
They allow the Partisan “extremes” precisely because no one is listening , the partisanship doesn’t matter, and it ain’t really all that extreme unless you’ve managed to get a column of tanks at the gates.
No I did nto mean the comment was uninteresting, I meant it is *always* revealing what censors hit at….
Comment at the Guardian from a non-believer (in Ob)
hmm Mike Whitney in C-Punch:
There is a report out here in Cali that 109 “hotels” are defaulting, not in danger of… but actually in default, on their mortgages in the Bay Area…. From a Marriott down in Silicon Valley to other lesser known names…
Geesh.. and this is the close:
It’s not just the banks – 1/3 of homeowners with mortgages are effectively underwater and can’t sell.
I don’t think the “banks are stuffed with reserves” is the right answer though. Banks have been stuffed with reserves ever since the Fed started frantically pumping them in around the time Bear Stearns and Lehman were collapsing.
The three reasons I’m hearing for why now is that first, the banks have a record number of homes in the default pipeline. They had tried to avoid losses by enrolling everyone they could in HAMP, extend and pretend, but there hasn’t been either a big jump in prices that would reduce defaults, or a big wave of buyers clearing out the inventory.
Second, Congress has started to hound them to realize and write off losses on second mortgages that have been pushed into the level 2 and level 3 bins, the “mark to make believe”. Now that the banks have been recapitalized with all this taxpayer money, they have more room to start writing this stuff off and liquidating more houses in the pipeline.
Finally, a lot of people in the industry really like HAMA, and how it’s going to free up a lot of short sales and deeds-in-lieu sales that were stacking up. Up to this point, many of these homeowners have already defaulted and are living rent free until the various creditors could agree what to do with them. Now they’re enrolling in the program and pushing these through, which allows people to move elsewhere or kicks them out, depending on your perspective.
In a normal market, all the people moving out of homes would be buying a new one or a more expensive one somewhere else. However, the people leaving now are being evicted and don’t have the wherewithal to buy another house.
sorry, that would be HAFA, not HAMA
That reminds me: I got an e-mail from Public Agenda asking if I wanted to be a guest blogger on economic issues i.e. “taxes and the unsustainability of the federal budget deficit”. Me? Blog about economic issues? haha
They might as well have asked me to write about quantum physics.
In a normal market, all the people moving out of homes would be buying a new one or a more expensive one somewhere else
Some people who did manage to do that, even in this horrible time, are now underwater for a second time.
In Cali things sit for 6 months, minimum. There is always a property that goes right away, but the great bulk, sit.
On the CPunch…
banks witholding loans/ housing inventory/
“Because the banks have been withholding supply to keep prices artificially high.” ….the other thing is the choice properties are being picked clean BEFORE they come to market…by the same speculative network behind Fannie and Freddie in the first place.
Gotta love the scam, the churning, now that the assets are being passed back to the same speculators, tipsters , banksters and Hedge Fund Harrys of the world. Now that people are dispossessed either quite literally in the end or by a crueler fate: infinite credite market servitude. Gotta love the scam, now that the Treasury has been just. fuckin. pillaged. And the rest of us serfs left staggering are set up to pick up the tab.
The other week while driving around the Mid Atlantic.
I heard this …on NPR The impressed reporters were almost frog torturing gleeful in how it all , ahem “worked”.
We Bought a Toxic Asset, You Can Watch It Die
(Transcript and audio available there.)
It’s recommended listening.
In a screwed pooch turd bag at the ready kind of way.
It reminded me of a spot-on take of NPR that Joe Bageant did a few years ago.
Obfuscations aside-
- the NeoLib assertion that Mother Earth’s resources remain quite bountiful ~ (stipulated) ~ if only the plunder could be ~ …(good luck!)
Clearly the useful share, the individual/ household share,
the US v. Global share of those resources are not.
While the velocity of monetized plunder hurtles on.
And the exploitative sorts get fawning “hands on” reports …
by NeoLiberalish organs like NPR.
Haven’t been able to tolerate listening to NPR on the radio for a long, long, time now. It gives me a reaction not unlike what I imagine swallowing a heavily drugged, sleeping baby rattlesnake might feel like.
NPR pushes the fictions. “Cokie Roberts” would be the code words – that alone.
By the way, thank you, Boo Hoo Hoo Man, for that use of the word churning; ’illegal’ churning. I remember some hot shit in Cali getting rightfully nailed for it, quite some time ago.
When I woke up one day and heard it referred to as something legal (yet ultimately as nasty) at Hewlitt Packard, I was quite confused, … thought I had misremembered some pretty vivid and close up history, when there used to be an, at least somewhat active, SEC force in Cali.
I did some work for his victim, a wonderful widowed woman.
Her husband was one of those few wonderful attorney’s who actually are able to find themselves doing something tangible in a big way, for the downtrodden.
whose victim?
the hot shit broker who got nailed for illegal churning of investments (he wasn’t the only one at the time), in her case, a widow’s retirement investments.
and I should correct that to, one of his victims, I’m sure she wasn’t the only one.
Some more depressing links:
HAFA foreclosure warning
California double-dipping right now
Frank asks banks to write off liens
Foreclosures preventing recovery
Great. My thrice-price-reduced house up for sale (four months already) in OR is gonna destroy even more of my dwindling equity.
Joe said it better than I did earlier…
Hope is for little kids and tooth fairies
Thanks for that.
So
Did all us Lucky to still have a Job (even if only as a needy unpayed intern, or for only a month a year) Losers, remember to fill out Scam Schedule M, for their
Making Work Pay….Credit
whereby the Dem’s morph directly into the Repugs, knowing that technology and “philanthropic globalism” has obsolesced the need for labor (yes, even in those white collar, middle class service industries), and that droning, taser’s, pain rays, et al, has obsolesced the need to fear us, ……admit that they have no need to pay any attention at all to our basic needs (such as food and shelter), and finally, admitting that we’ve all been sodomized, toss their unneeded, cumbersome and weighty pennies at our unarmored faces in contempt.
May they rot in hell….
I would be more than happy, to send my “credit” to Thomas A. Drake, or, those of his aquaintances who stand by him, and are, actively, supporting him.
Just to clearly qualify, I have no problems paying income tax, glad to. I do have an enormous issue with largescale poverty (particularly when the poverty ridden actually work, and take plenty abuse -treated as if their “job” were a “gift”) and droning of innocent human beings.
ugh I hated taxes… still do. Over the decades less and less and less (and less and less…) goes where i think it should… and so much gets funneled to private “providers”.
I don’t “love” them, I just see no other way to fund some of societies needs. To my mind, a true progressive tax (not saying the one that exists hasn’t been corrupted), is the only way to achieve some of that with the economic structure that currently exists.
Well as corporations increasingly pay less or no tax at all, the burden will grow on the middle class. Eventually ti is insurpportable.
AND NOW the IRS will be nose deep in the mandate. What a nightmare!
That is the problem, in a nutshell, the Corporate share is a sick and nasty ugly joke… as is the major “Investors” share, and no mercy for anyone who points that out in the Corporate workforce, the Fox indeed, is in the chickencoop, the walls are red.
a deep, and bloody red
oh I remember that night!
7 Tea party events in the Bay Area… seems some of them hung banners and signs from freeway overpasses.
Hoot!
Oh gee.. I am just hearing that “volcanologists” cannot say how long the Iceland volcano will belch heavy smoke. And ash.
A round up of the articles via Google.
Can he do that unilaterally?
The hook is accepting Federal dollars.
Oklahoma Catholics Upset Over Perceived Genitalia On Crucifix
LOL. Jeezis.
I’ve heard of “six pack” abs, but “dick pack” abs?
It’s a miracle!
what incubator has Nicole Belle been in… She sees a six pack of abs in that? How?
I SAY
~ it’s proof Jesus was Hung on the Cross.
HA! When we were about 7 the nuns told us not to be too shocked but it was likely Jesus was crucified NAKED!
We all gasped and drew back. High drama.
Taxing the Poor to Bail out the Rich
wellllllllllllll I could support a VAT, but one unlike any that the US government would envision. Sailboats over a certain length, boats and yachts over a certain length and dollar price, etc. $100,000 cars. I am sure there are many items that could fall to a VAT. Even a 10% VAT, rather than anything larger. SECOND HOMES!
The US will be putting a VAT on a child’s 50 dollar winter coat. And so on
oh I remember that night!
of course hon, you posted the pic., my memory’s not that bad (yet).
(I also have a ‘lovely’ hardcopy….. Ya FUCKERS!)
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I think, iirc, I snagged the first one from Kathryn Jean Lopez, that craxy Catholic over at The Corner… and then found more.
[snicker, making use of the schnauzers over at TC, NRO]
I snagged the first one from Kathryn Jean Lopez, that craxy Catholic over at The Corner
Well I don’t know anything about her, but, I still think the picture is hilarious in a bleak sort of way….
…we are so sorry MASTER!….
Priceless!
Scenes of Cloudmageddon across the pond, I see. Osama bin Clouden.
Speaking of Osama, I have some Canadian geese in the back 40. I nicknamed two of them – bin and laden (feathered terrorists that they are…)
They are now your personal responsibility. If they fly ovr the US and take a flying drop…………. OR worse they attack a plane!!…. we will come find you.
I think you are likely a terrorist leader.
Maybe you are a secret Imam?
Well, I have been trying to grow a beard…
My cover for the beard thing is that every canuck is bound by law to try to grow one during the hockey playoffs. So, dont tell anybody!
Well, this should be interesting…
nooo…. ooooo
LINK
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